Year end accounts summarise a full accounting period into statements your accountant files. The work is not the summarising — it is proving every figure, which is quick when each entry already carries its source document and slow when it does not.
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Not producing the accounts. Reconciling to them: finding out what a transfer in March was for, whether an invoice was ever paid, why the bank balance does not agree with the ledger.
That work is archaeology, and it is what most of an accountant's fee actually buys. It disappears entirely when the records were kept as the year went.
When the figures are already agreed, the year-end meeting stops being a reconciliation and becomes advice: whether to incorporate, how to time a purchase, what the numbers say about next year.
That is the part of an accountant worth paying for, and it is the part that gets squeezed out when three weeks went on tidying up instead.
Your accountant keeps a free Bizzle login with the full audit trail, so they are working from the same live file rather than a folder you emailed.
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It keeps the ledger and produces the figures. Statutory filing stays with your accountant, who has the professional responsibility and the judgement calls that go with it.
Migration rebuilds a great deal from your bank feed and inbox, but a genuinely chaotic prior year is a human job. That is exactly what a bookkeeper is good at and software is not.
With current records, days rather than weeks — and most of that is your accountant's review rather than your input.
Yes. The accountant login is free, permanent and has the full ledger and audit trail, so adjustments are made in the same file rather than sent back in a spreadsheet for you to re-key.
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